Business Model Lead Investor Management Silicon Valley 
View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
Business Models and Sectors. The public markets have clearly rewarded traditional, software based businesses over different business models, and that effect was starting to work its way through the earlier stage ecosystem. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.
Professor VC
APRIL 1, 2010
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While this may certainly be the case with unsophisticated angels (much less of these now) or in cases with no lead investor, Id argue the opposite. I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. ProfessorVC. Thursday, April 1, 2010. Well, not exactly.I
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reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. The general rule is one business model drives the business.
Professor VC
OCTOBER 20, 2009
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." In how many of those were you a lead investor? ProfessorVC.
Professor VC
JANUARY 20, 2009
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Mid-way through the process, we took another cut at our business plan and built a model where $5 million would be sufficient to get us beyond breakeven. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.
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